From January 2024, TUM members will have new opportunities to publish their research results Open Access – without incurring any costs for authors. This is made possible through Publish & Read agreements with publishers that the university library concludes for TUM as part of Germany-wide consortia.
The first contracts, effective from 2024, have now been finalized:
In addition to existing agreements, further contracts with Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer, and Wiley, among others, are currently being finalized. As soon as details are available, we will inform you here on the library website.
For TUM members this means:
- Reading access to thousands of journals
Through Publish & Read contracts, we grant you full access to most of the journals offered by a publisher. With the new agreements, we continue this for ACS and IEEE and also providing you with access to the entire portfolio of Nature journals for the first time.
- Comprehensive Open Access publication options
As a corresponding author at TUM, you can publish articles that are accepted for publication from 01.01.2024 in the journals of ACS, IEEE and Nature Open Access without incurring APCs (Article Processing Charges) for you personally. The costs are covered centrally by TUM, and no funding application is required. Details and publishing conditions
Expansion of TUM’s Publish & Read Infrastructure
In order to support the visibility of research in the best possible way, TUM is significantly expanding its infrastructure in the area of information provision and publication services. The TUM Board of Management, the University Library, and the TUM Schools have joined to create the financial basis for entering into comprehensive Publish & Read agreements with academic publishers. With TUM.University Press, we also offer a TUM-specific alternative for publishing monographs, edited volumes, and Open Access journals, independent of commercial publishers.
We are here to advise you:
Open Access Team
TUM.University Press Team
Further Information
Publication options within the framework of existing agreements
Publishing with TUM.University Press
